By: Rachel Partlow
Middle School Art Club, already in its tenth year, is an afterschool work period to explore art. It is open to Hopkinton students grade six through eight from September through May, and is held in the Art Room of Hopkinton High School from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. Art Club has no attendance policy, so Sue Batchelder, head of Art Club, says its “attendance has ranged from one person on a bad-weather day, to 28 people a few times – which can be pretty lively.“
Students who attend Art Club often work on independent art projects and other creative pursuits, in mediums such as drawing, painting and sculpture. An advantage of Art Club is that students are able to use more craft materials than are normally provided in art classes, as Art Club is financially supported by the Hopkinton PTA. Sue Batchelder finds hardly anything she dislikes about Art Club, only that she wishes she could help everyone more quickly when lots of people show up. Overall, she praises it for its “relaxed atmosphere” and finds it a great way to spend her Monday afternoons.
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